Ticket cabinet



June 14 1927- E. AXBERG TICKET CABINET Filed Feb. 16, 1926 (Tum-m,

Patented June 14,1927.

ll til) TAT ES recs- TICKET CABINET;

Application filed February 16, 1926. Serial No. 88,551.

-The present invention relates to improvements in ticket cabinets adapted to contaln a plurality of ticket rolls or rolled strips, and from which strips the tickets are succ ssively dispensed by grasping in the hand d pulling. The cabinet is especially adaptr use in railway, theatre and other offices-where expedition is required in dis penning numbered tickets andaccuracy is necessary in accounting for the sale of the tickets. i

in carrying out my invention means are gn-ovided for cutting or severing the tickets as they are successively withdrawn from the cabinet, and means are also provided Whereby the numbers of the succeeding tickets at ascertained when desired, as for instance when making up the accounts at the end of certain periods, as for a day.

lifieans are provided for locking the cabinet against removal of the ticket rolls and means are also provided for locking the cabiuet against removal of single or successive tickets from a strip or strips, and various other reatures are utilized in the construclion and operation of the device to insure proficiency and accuracy in the performance of its functions. Y

The invention consists in certain novel combinations andarrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully set forth and claimed. in the accompanying drawings 1 have illustrated one complete example of the phy cal embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and ar ranged in accordance with the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a ticket cabinet embodying my invention, showing by dotted lines the interior parts of the mechanism, and also showing by dotted lines a superimposed unit. 7

Figure 2 a transverse vertical sectional view of the cabinet showing a ticket in position to be detached from a roll or strip of tickets.

Figure 3 is an enlarged, sectional, detail view of one ofthe locking devices for the drop bar or hinged locking bar for the tickels.

l ighre is a horizi'uital. longitudinal sectional view at one end of the cabinet showing a portion of the front plate and one of its locking bolts.

ticket rolls, and rests upon a base board 1.

The cabinet comprised abottom plate 2, rear wall 3 and top plate l, with a front plate 5 hinged as at 6 at the top to swing outwardly and upwardly to give access to the interior of the cabinet when required. The end walls 7 and 8 are fashioned with flanges 9 forcecurely closing the ends of the cabinet and the several parts are secured together in suitable manner.

At regular intervals throughout the length of the cabinet are arranged a number of partitions 10 secured against the rear wall of the cabinet and also the bottom, and terminating adjacent the front plate. Thevertically arranged partitions divide the cabinet into compartments in which are contained the rolls 11 of tickets which contact with the back wall and rest upon thebottoin of the cabinet. ltn each compartment is 10- cateda guide roller 13 loose upon a longitudinally extending rod 14 which is aiiixed in the end walls of the cabinet and extends through alined openings in the partitions. The rod is located in proper position so that the ticket roll will contact with the guide rollerin the respective compartments to restrain the roll from displacement and guide the strip as a ticket as 12 is pulled from the turning roll. It will be understood that: the protruding end of the ticket 12 is grasped in the hand and a pull thereon causes theroll to turn on its axis. When the 'length of a ticket has been pulled out it is torn off or severed and the remaining tickets are successively detachedas will .be described.

For locking the front plate 5 I use a pair of long slide bolts 15 and 16 extending fronr the longitudinal center of the cabinet toward its respective ends and located at the inner side of the plate. These bolts are adapted to slide-in guides 17 on the inner face of the plate, and the free ends of the slide bolts engage back of complementary flanges 18 at the front of the end plates and alined with the plate when the latter is in closed locked position. These bolts are pivoted on the ends of a double lever arm 19 which is fixed to oscillate with a shaft 20 that extends through an opening in the front plate locatfora longitudinally extending discharge slot of sufiiclent length to accommodate the pased at its approximate longitudinal center. A knob 21 is loosely journaled on the shaft at the exterior side of the plate and suitably supported in hearings in the plate, and a key 22 may be inserted between the knob and shaft forcoupling these two members together in order that the knob may be turned to retract the slide bolts and release" the front plate so that it may be swung open on its-upper hinges to gain access to the interior of the cabinet. The key 22 of "course is removable and is inserted into the operatingparts of the lock only when it is de sired to unlock theplate.

As seenin Figure 2 the lower edge of'the front plate terminates at a point to provide sage tlierethrough of tickets from the severa-l'ticketrolls. At the front of theb'ottom plateisfashioned an inclined deliver-y plate orguide plate 23 which-extends longitudinally of thecabinet below the lower edgeof the front plate. In front of the delivery plate is arranged an inclined glass plate 24* ers as 26 are interposed between-the ends of the plate and thebrackets asshown in Figure 3. v

i A drop plate 27 is hinged to the delivery plateat 28 and, fashioned with a flange 29. The dropplate is normally openwhendis pensing tickets, but is turned-up against the under faces-of the ends of the projecting tickets to hold said ends againstthe under face of the glass plate when the cabinet is closed. The flange 29 also projects up along the lower outer edge of the glass to prevent access to the ticket ends when the drop plate is closed. For locking the cabinet, as at the endlof a day, to prevent access to the ticket ends, the drop plate is turned up on its hinges to the dottedline position in Figure 2 and a key is used in connection with each of the two lock casings 30 at the ends of the drop plate to project the bolts 31 into notches of the end brackets 25.

In Figure 1' at 33a superimposedcabinet is shown in connection with the cabinet described to indicate how the cabinets may be builtup in units one upon another where the demand for tickets justifies the use of a number of cabinets.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is A ticket cabinet comprising a ticket roll container having a flat, bottom, a rear wall, top wall, closed ends and a front plate hinged to the front top edge of said top wall and having its loweredge disposed in slightly spaced relation above said bottom to form a'ticket slot, means for locking said front plate in closed position, an inclined glass cover plate disposed over the ticket slot and having its forward edge placed to form atic-ket cutter, an inclined delivery flange formed on the front edge of said contamer bottom beneath said cover plate and parallel'thereto, sald flange terminating 1nwardly of the outer edge of said cover plate to provide a finger clearance, a drop plate hingedly suspended from the forward edge,

of said delivery flange to hang in finger clearing position, said drop plate being formed for closing the ticket slot by being swung upwardly in abutting relation to said cover plate, and meansfor locking said drop plate in slot closing position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDWARD AXBERG; 

